Beschreibung:

Supplementum chronicarum.
Venice: Bernard Benalius, 1483. Large 8vo (274 x 178 mm). 58 numbered leaves of 306, 54 lines and headline, Gothic type, three- to eight-line initial spaces, some with guide-letters, rubricated. Modern paper over boards, red edges. Condition: cropped at head and outer margins affecting some headlines and rubrics, some stains. Provenance: ms. annotations in a 16th-century bookhand. Hain 2805. With three other incunable fragments bound similarly, comprising: Conrad von HALBERSTADT , Concordantiae bibliorum, Basel: Johann Froben, 1496, 116 leaves (Hain *5633); Thomas de ARGENTINA , Scripta super quattuor libros sententiarum, Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1490, 51 leaves (Goff T343); and Guillelmus DURANTIS , Rationale divinorum officiorum, Rome: George Lauer, 1477, 55 leaves (Hain *6477). [With:] CLIMACUS, Johannes [Giovanni Climaco] . Scala del Paradiso. Venice: Christopher de Mandelo, 12 October 1492. 8vo ( 205 x 150 mm). 96 signed leaves, 42 lines, Roman type, 5 four- to six-line printed block initials, after which initial spaces, some with guide-letters. Variant colophon, ‘Cristopholo.’ Flexible brown paper boards, ms. title to spine. Condition : a1- a2 lacking, a7-8 tipped in, small hole to outer margin of b2, mild dampstaining, some soiling and wear to fore-edge; extremities rubbed, chipped at joint, ms. title faded. Provenance : unidentified Cardinal (heraldic bookplate of shield topped by Cardinal’s hat and fifteen tassels to front pastedown); cancelled inscription in blue ink to front endpaper. Hain 5469. Sold not subject to return.